Actually she cost a fair bit, not only in direct amount paid to care for her fatness, and also her surgery, but also from the previous things that were tried such as her time at the priory, which the Sun alleges cost £5K a week for 24 weeks, before she checked herself out as she didn't like the food.
They need to start puttign stipulations on what the NHS covers and will cover in future, if people do nothing to help themselves, we shouldn't (as taxpayers) continue to pay for them to do nothing to help themselves.
Cut them off, and you will see improvement in the situation. In this woman's case the husband quit his job to care for his Jabba. Seriously, he gave up paid employment to care OVERFEED his wife. That sort of rubbish cripples society, when it is repeated large scale.
The NHS should start to set limits now, such as for those under an age or born from this day, there will be no provision for x or y if you do and continue to a or b.
Such as no COPD care paid for if you smoke, for those born today, they will have 16 years to think about their lifestyle choice, in the full knowledge that if they smoke they will pay for their own COPD care when they require it.
You could set a similar rule for being overweight, if you weigh more than one quarter of a ton, as this woman did, you pay for you own medical care and home care, and shipping costs when you need transported on the back of a truck around the place.
Its simple basic finances, and monetary incentives tend to work better in prevention.
